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BIOENGINEERING NEWSLETTER
Issue 7:11
Bioengineering
Newsletter
Winter 2013
THE LEADING DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERING IN THE UK
Volume
IN THIS ISSUE
7 Issue 11
Ho Ho Ho Happy Holidays!
by
Jenna Stevens-Smith
Another term coming to an end and it’s
been a great one. Grant success across
our research themes including an ERC
grant for Dr Niamh Nowlan and BBSRC
grant for Dr Tom Ellis. The Department
has continued to expand with the addition
of Dr Tobias Reichenbach and Dr Claudia
Clopath as lecturers and Dr Hari Arora as
a Research Fellow in Lung Mechanics.
Bioengineering was well represented
across the seven new Imperial EPSRC
Centres for Doctoral Training, including
the CDT for Neurotechnology for life and
health which is being led by Dr Simon
Schultz.
Department has also attracted high
calibre researchers from across the world
to deliver seminars as part of the
Department Seminar series organized by
Dr Chui Fan Lee and promoted by Laura
McKay. The Department’s excellent
research has also attracted a lot of
interest outside of academia with Dr Aldo
Faisal appearing on BBC Science Club
the summer. This exposure and interest is
set to grow in 2014 with Bang goes the
Theory filming in the Department in
January and a number of other high
profile events to look forward to in the
new year.
Our researchers have continued to
succeed with Dr Angela Kedgley’s Junior
Research Fellowship, Dr Sarah Jarvis’s
Marie Curie Fellowship and Professor
James Moore Jnr (our new Director of
Research) enthusing and educating a
packed auditorium in his inaugural lecture
on lymphatic system biomechanics.
The Department’s dynamism has spread
to social media with more than 1000
followers on Twitter and increasing
interest on the Facebook and Pinterest
pages. The future continues to get
brighter for the Department with some
impressive prospective students attending
the undergraduate interview days and
postgraduate open day.
We have had a number of high profile
visitors this term, most notably Prince
Harry and Sir Bobby Charlton for the
official opening of the Royal British Legion
Centre for Blast Injury Studies. The
It’s been an impressive year, but in my six
months in the Department I have come to
realise this is only the beginning. After all
WE ARE THE DEPARTMENT OF
BIOENGINEERING.
New brochures launched
After a summer of preparation the dramatically
different Department Brochures were launched
this month at the PG Open Day.
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WE ARE
THE DEPARTMENT OF BIOENGINEERING
After a summer spent writing, editing and finalising content.
The Department is pleased to announce that we have new
Department and Undergraduate brochures. We are keen for
these brochures to be promoted far and wide, so if you are
going on a visit, conference or have visitors please feel free
to pop down to 3.08 RSM to pick up some of the brochures.
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Department Christmas Party 2013
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NEWS IN BRIEF
Chartered Engineer
Congratulations to Dr Theofano Eftaxiopoulou
CEng MIMechE who has achieved chartered
engineering status with the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers.
Fellowship funding
by
Jenna Stevens-Smith
th
On 5
December the Women in
Bioengineering network met to discuss
fellowship funding. These events are
specifically for women but many of the
topics discussed will be of interest to all
researchers in the Department.
Present around the World
Present around the World (PATW) is the IET’s
presentation competition for young engineers and
technicians, aged 18 to 26. For more information go
to http://conferences.theiet.org/patw/about/index.cfm
There were a number of issues and
considerations raised through the course
of the session and I have expanded on
the key ones are below.
1.
Department Alumnus wins global
pharmaceutical award
Former PhD student Dr Bhavik Patel (PhD
2002-5, then EPRSC International Fellow
under Danny O’Hare’s supervision) has been
awarded GSK Emerging Scientist of the Year
2013.
He is now senior lecturer at the
University of Brighton, School of Pharmacy.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Have news about your research, an event or just
want to write for the newsletter?
CONTACT JENNA STEVENS-SMITH
Skills required for the application
In addition to the time taken to compile a
successful Fellowship application one of
the key areas which postdocs may not
have experience is compiling a budget.
We have expertise in the Department for
this and if a number of postdocs are
interested we could put on a workshop
and circulate some top tips.
2. Do your research
Who has ben successful in getting the
Fellowship you are applying to before?
Do you know any successful applicants?
If so talk to them about their experience of
applying and any top tips they can give
you.
3. Peer review
Get fellow researchers to peer review
your application. In particular get your
peer reviewers to comment on how
accessible your application is, as the
academics reviewing your application will
be busy and the clearer you can make
your science and the aims of your
Fellowship the better.
4.
Timing
When does your contract run out? How
long will the application take and if
successful when would the Fellowship
begin? When you consider these
questions the time that you begin looking
and applying for Fellowships may
lengthen considerably. It is also worth
considering that for some Fellowship
applications that letters of support are
looked
upon
favourably,
do
not
underestimate how long these will take to
acquire.
5. Good luck…literally
Competition is high and therefore success
rate for Fellowships are not, so do not be
disheartened if you are unsuccessful. Ask
for feedback and implement this into your
next application. Some individuals find
knowing the application success rate for
Fellowships useful prior to applying, if you
are one of these people you can request
this information, although it may not
always be provided.
Applying for Fellowships and grants can
be incredibly frustrating sometimes
especially if you receive a number of
rejections. But if you are keen to develop
your academic career it is part of the
journey. Here in the Department of
Bioengineering there are a number of
people who can help. To capitalise on the
support available approach individuals far
in advance of the deadline and if need be
follow up closer to the deadline.
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Publications
Departmental publications are reported in the
newsletter every quarter. This information is
drawn from Symplectic.
Journal articles
Alam, M., Bull, AMJ., deW Thomas, R., and
Amis, A. A. A Clinical Device for Measuring
Internal-External Rotational Laxity of the Knee.
The American journal of sports medicine,
41(1), 87-94. (2013).
Algar, R., Ellis, T., and Stan G.-B., Modelling
the burden caused by gene expression: an in
silico investigation into the interactions
between synthetic gene circuits and their
chassis cell. arXiv preprint arXiv:1309.7798
(2013).
Allievi, A. G., Melendez-Calderon, A., Arichi,
T., Edwards, A. D., and Burdet, E. An fMRI
Compatible Wrist Robotic Interface to Study
Brain Development in Neonates. Annals of
biomedical engineering (2013): 1-12.
Amadi, H. O., Olugbenga A. Mokuolu, and
Obasa, T. Effect of high sun intensity on
neonatal incubator functionality in a tropical
climate. Journal of Neonatal Nursing (2012).
Arichi, T., R. Gordon‐Williams, A. Allievi, A. M.
Groves, E. Burdet, and A. D. Edwards.
"Computer‐controlled stimulation for functional
magnetic resonance imaging studies of the
neonatal olfactory system." Acta Paediatrica
102, no. 9 (2013): 868-875.
Arpino, James AJ, Edward J. Hancock, James
Anderson, Mauricio Barahona, Guy-Bart V.
Stan, Antonis Papachristodoulou, and Karen
Polizzi. "Tuning the Dials of Synthetic
Biology." Microbiology (2013).
Ball, Gareth, James P. Boardman, Paul
Aljabar, Anand Pandit, Tomoki Arichi, Nazakat
Merchant, Daniel Rueckert, A. David Edwards,
and Serena J. Counsell. "The influence of
preterm birth on the developing thalamocortical
connectome." Cortex (2012).
Ball, Gareth, James P. Boardman, Tomoki
Arichi, Nazakat Merchant, Daniel Rueckert, A.
David Edwards, and Serena J. Counsell.
"Testing the Sensitivity of Tract-Based Spatial
Statistics to Simulated Treatment Effects in
Preterm Neonates." PloS one 8, no. 7 (2013):
e67706.
Bazan-Peregrino, Miriam, Bassel Rifai, Robert
C. Carlisle, James Choi, Costas D. Arvanitis,
Leonard W. Seymour, and Constantin C.
Coussios. "Cavitation-Enhanced Delivery of a
Replicating Oncolytic Adenovirus to Tumors
using
Focused
Ultrasound." Journal
of
Controlled Release (2013).
Bertram, C. D., C. Macaskill, and J. E. Moore
Jr. "Incorporating measured valve properties
into a numerical model of a lymphatic
vessel." Computer methods in biomechanics
and biomedical engineering ahead-of-print
(2013): 1-16.
Bonfiglio, Andrea, Rodolfo Repetto, Jennifer H.
Siggers,
and
Alessandro
Stocchino.
"Investigation of the motion of a viscous fluid in
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the vitreous cavity induced by eye rotations
and implications for drug delivery." Physics in
medicine and biology 58, no. 6 (2013): 1969.
Borhani, Maedeh, Alison H. McGregor, and
Anthony MJ Bull. "An alternative technical
marker set for the pelvis is more repeatable
than the standard pelvic marker set." Gait &
Posture (2013).
Brady, Mariea Alice, Reva Vaze, Harsh D.
Amin, Darryl R. Overby, and Christopher Ross
Ethier. "A New Method for Articular CartilageSpecific Bioreactors: The Design and
Development of a High-throughput MagnetoMechanostimulation
Device." Tissue
Engineering ja (2013).
Brucoli, Federico, Rachel M. Hawkins, Colin H.
James, Paul JM Jackson, Geoff Wells,
Terence C. Jenkins, Tom Ellis et al. "An
Extended Pyrrolobenzodiazepine–Polyamide
Conjugate with Selectivity for a DNA Sequence
Containing the ICB2 Transcription Factor
Binding
Site." Journal
of
medicinal
chemistry 56, no. 16 (2013): 6339-6351.
Campolo, Domenico, Ferdinan Widjaja, Hong
Xu, Wei Tech Ang, and Etienne Burdet.
"Analysis of accuracy in pointing with
redundant hand-held tools: a geometric
approach to the uncontrolled manifold
method." PLoS computational biology 9, no. 4
(2013): e1002978.
Caro, Colin Gerald, Anusha Seneviratne, Kevin
B. Heraty, Claudia Monaco, Martin G. Burke,
Rob Krams, Carlos C. Chang, Gianfilippo
Coppola, and Paul Gilson. "Intimal hyperplasia
following implantation of helical-centreline and
straight-centreline stents in common carotid
arteries in healthy pigs: influence of
intraluminal flow†." Journal of The Royal
Society Interface 10, no. 89 (2013): 20130578.
Casey, Jonathan, Charles Sennoga, Helen
Mulvana, Jo V. Hajnal, Meng-Xing Tang, and
Robert J. Eckersley. "Single Bubble Acoustic
Characterization and Stability Measurement of
Adherent
Microbubbles." Ultrasound
in
medicine & biology (2013).
Cazé, Romain Daniel, Mark Humphries, and
Boris Gutkin. "Passive Dendrites Enable Single
Neurons to Compute Linearly Non-separable
Functions." PLoS computational biology 9, no.
2 (2013): e1002867.
Cleather, Daniel J., Jon E. Goodwin, and
Anthony MJ Bull. "Intersegmental Moment
Analysis
Characterizes
the
Partial
Correspondence of Jumping and Jerking." The
Journal
of
Strength
&
Conditioning
Research 27, no. 1 (2013): 89-100.
Clopath, Claudia, and Nicolas Brunel. "Optimal
Properties of Analog Perceptrons with
Excitatory
Weights." PLoS
computational
biology 9, no. 2 (2013): e1002919.
Diss, Lucy, Stephen Robinson, Yukyee Wu,
Sara Fidalgo, Mark S. Yeoman, and Bhavik
Anil Patel. "Age-related changes in melatonin
release in the murine distal colon." ACS
chemical neuroscience (2013).
Domínguez-Hüttinger, Elisa, Masahiro Ono,
Mauricio Barahona, and Reiko J. Tanaka. "Risk
factor-dependent
dynamics
of
atopic
dermatitis: modelling multi-scale regulation of
epithelium homeostasis." Interface Focus 3,
no. 2 (2013).
Eftaxiopoulou, Theofano, Chinmay M. Gupte,
John P. Dear, and Anthony MJ Bull. "The effect
of digitisation of the humeral epicondyles on
quantifying elbow kinematics during cricket
bowling." Journal of sports sciences 31, no. 15
(2013): 1722-1730.
Eftekhar, Amir, Christofer Toumazou, and
Emmanuel M. Drakakis. "Empirical Mode
Decomposition: Real-Time Implementation and
Applications." Journal of Signal Processing
Systems (2013): 1-16.
Ejaz, Naveed, Holger G. Krapp, and Reiko J.
Tanaka. "Closed-loop response properties of a
visual interneuron involved in fly optomotor
control." Frontiers in neural circuits 7 (2013).
Esmaeili, Mohammad, Sarah Guy, Wayne
Denton Dailey, Etienne Burdet, and Domenico
Campolo. "Subject-Specific Wrist Model
Calibration and Application to Ergonomic
Design of Exoskeletons." Sensors Journal,
IEEE 13, no. 9 (2013): 3293-3301.
Raymond, L. D., and Bhavik Patel.
"Buckycolumn electrodes: a practical and
improved alternative to conventional materials
utilised
for
biological
electrochemical
monitoring." Journal of Materials Chemistry
B 1, no. 35 (2013): 4359-4363.
Fan, Tingbo, Zhenbo Liu, Dong Zhang, and
Mengxing Tang. "Comparative study of lesions
created by high intensity focused ultrasound
using sequential discrete and continuous
scanning strategies." (2013): 1-1.
Farkhatdinov, Ildar, Nizar Ouarti, and Vincent
Hayward. "Vibrotactile Inputs To The Feet Can
Modulate
Vection." Proceedings
of
the
IEEE (2012): 5812-5817.
Foin N, Sen S, Petraco R, Nijjer S, Torii R,
Kousera C, Broyd C, Mehta V, Xu Y, Mayet J,
Hughes A, Di Mario C, Krams R, Francis D,
Davies J, "Method for Percutaneously
Introducing, and Removing, Anatomical
Stenosis of Predetermined Severity In Vivo:
The “Stenotic Stent”." Journal of cardiovascular
translational research (2013): 1-9.
Forbes S, Godsland IF, Taylor-Robinson SD,
Bell JD, Thomas EL, Patel N, Hamilton G,
Parker KH, Marshall I, Gray CD, Bedford D,
Caslake M, Walker BR, Johnston DG,"A history
of previous gestational diabetes mellitus is
associated with adverse changes in insulin
secretion and VLDL metabolism independently
of increased intrahepatocellular lipid."
Diabetologia (2013): 1-13.
Frueh, Jennifer, Nataly Maimari, Takayuki
Homma, Sandra Bovens, Ryan M. Pedrigi,
Leila Towhidi, and Rob Krams. "Systems
biology of the functional and dysfunctional
endothelium." Cardiovascular research (2013).
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Galligan, J. J., B. A. Patel, S. P. Schneider, H.
Wang, H. Zhao, M. Novotny, X. Bian, R.
Kabeer, D. Fried, and G. M. Swain. "Visceral
hypersensitivity in female but not in male
serotonin
transporter
knockout
rats." Neurogastroenterology & Motility (2013).
Ganesh, Gowrishankar, and Etienne Burdet.
"Motor planning explains human behaviour in
tasks with multiple solutions." Robotics and
Autonomous Systems(2012).
Girard, Michaël JA, Nicholas G. Strouthidis,
Adrien Desjardins, Jean Martial Mari, and C.
Ross Ethier. "In vivo optic nerve head
biomechanics: performance testing of a threedimensional tracking algorithm." Journal of The
Royal Society Interface 10, no. 87 (2013):
20130459.
Harrison, Matthew, Emily Smith, Ewan Ross,
Robert Krams, Dolf Segers, Christopher D.
Buckley, Gerard B. Nash, and G. Ed Rainger.
"The Role of Platelet-Endothelial Cell Adhesion
Molecule-1 in Atheroma Formation Varies
Depending on the Site-Specific Hemodynamic
EnvironmentSignificance."
Arteriosclerosis,
thrombosis, and vascular biology 33, no. 4
(2013): 694-701.
Hemelryck, Walter, P. Germonpré, Virginie
Papadopoulou, M. Rozloznik, and Costantino
Balestra. "Long term effects of recreational
SCUBA diving on higher cognitive function."
Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in
sports (2013).
Hosny, Neveen A., Graciela Mohamedi, Paul
Rademeyer, Joshua Owen, Yilei Wu, MengXing Tang, Robert J. Eckersley, Eleanor Stride,
and Marina K. Kuimova. "Mapping microbubble
viscosity using fluorescence lifetime imaging of
molecular rotors." Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences 110, no. 23 (2013):
9225-9230.
Hughes, Alun D., Chloe Park, Justin Davies,
Darrel Francis, Simon A. McG Thom, Jamil
Mayet, and Kim H. Parker. "Limitations of
Augmentation Index in the Assessment of
Wave Reflection in Normotensive Healthy
Individuals." PloS one 8, no. 3 (2013): e59371.
Jones GN, Moschidou D, Abdulrazzak H,
Kalirai B, Vanleene M, Osatis S, Shefelbine S,
Horwood NJ, Marenzana M, De Coppi P,
Bassett JH, Williams G, Fisk NM, Guillot PV
"Potential of human fetal chorionic stem cells
for
the
treatment
of
osteogenesis
imperfecta." Stem
cells
and
development (2013).
Kardoulaki, Evdokia M., Konstantinos N.
Glaros, Andreas G. Katsiamis, Henry Man D.
Ip, and Emmanuel M. Drakakis. "A simulation
study of high‐order CMOS hyperbolic‐sine
filters." International Journal of Circuit Theory
and Applications (2013).
Kedgley, Angela E., Benjamin J. Shore,
George S. Athwal, James A. Johnson, and
Kenneth J. Faber. "An in-vitro study of rotator
cuff tear and repair kinematics using single-and
double-row
suture
anchor
fixation."
International journal of shoulder surgery 7, no.
2 (2013): 46.
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Ko, Ho, Lee Cossell, Chiara Baragli, Jan
Antolik, Claudia Clopath, Sonja B. Hofer, and
Thomas D. Mrsic-Flogel. "The emergence of
functional microcircuits in visual cortex." Nature
496, no. 7443 (2013): 96-100.
Lee, Chiu Fan. "Active particles under
confinement: aggregation at the wall and
gradient formation inside a channel." New
Journal of Physics 15, no. 5 (2013): 055007.
Macdonald, W., and Shefelbine, S. J.
"Characterising neovascularisation in fracture
healing with laser Doppler and micro-CT
scanning." Medical & biological engineering &
computing 51, no. 10 (2013): 1157-1165.
Maimari, Nataly, Calin-Rares Turliuc, Krysia
Broda, Antonis Kakas, Rob Krams, and
Alessandra Russo. "ARNI: Abductive Inference
of Complex Regulatory Network Structures." In
Computational Methods in Systems Biology, p.
235.
Masouros, Spyros D., Nicolas Newell, Arul
Ramasamy, Timothy J. Bonner, Andrew TH
West, Adam M. Hill, Jon C. Clasper, and
Anthony MJ Bull. "Design of a traumatic injury
simulator for assessing lower limb response to
high loading rates." Annals of biomedical
engineering (2013): 1-11.
Meguellati, Kamel, Ali Fallah-Araghi, JeanChristophe Baret, Abdeslam El Harrak,
Thomas Mangeat, Carlos M. Marques, Andrew
D. Griffiths, and Sylvain Ladame. "Enhanced
imine synthesis in water: from surfactantmediated
catalysis
to
host–guest
mechanisms." Chemical Communications 49,
no. 96 (2013): 11332-11334.
Merchant, N. M., D. V. Azzopardi, A. F.
Hawwa, J. C. McElnay, B. Middleton, J. Arendt,
T. Arichi, P. Gressens, and A. D. Edwards.
"Pharmacokinetics of melatonin in preterm
infants." British journal of clinical pharmacology
(2013).
Milekovic, Tomislav, Tonio Ball, Andreas
Schulze-Bonhage, Ad Aertsen, and Carsten
Mehring. "Detection of Error Related Neuronal
Responses Recorded by Electrocorticography
in Humans during Continuous Movements."
PloS one 8, no. 2 (2013): e55235.
Montani, Fernando, Elena Phoka, Mariela
Portesi, and Simon R. Schultz. "Statistical
modelling of higher-order correlations in pools
of neural activity." Physica A: Statistical Mech
Nguyen, Thuy-Tien, James Wilgeroth, Warren
Macdonald, and William Proud. "Methods of
Controlled Shock Wave Generation in A Shock
Tube for Biological Applications." Bulletin of the
American Physical Society 58 (2013).anics and
its Applications (2013).
Olivon VC, Fraga-Silva RA, Segers D,
Demougeot C, de Oliveira AM, Savergnini SS,
Berthelot A, de Crom R, Krams R, Stergiopulos
N, da Silva RF, "Arginase inhibition prevents
the low shear stress-induced development of
vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques in ApoE−/−
mice." Atherosclerosis (2013).
Ono, Masahiro, Reiko J. Tanaka, Manabu
Kano, and Toshio Sugiman. "Visualising the
Cross-Level
Relationships
between
Pathological and Physiological Processes and
Gene Expression: Analyses of Haematological
Diseases." PloS one 8, no. 1 (2013): e53544.
Oyarzún, Diego A., Fernando López-Caamal,
Míriam R. García, Richard H. Middleton, and
Andrea Y. Weiße. "Cumulative signal
transmission in nonlinear reaction-diffusion
networks." PloS one 8, no. 5 (2013): e62834.
Papadimitriou, Konstantinos I., Guy-Bart V.
Stan, and Emmanuel M. Drakakis. "Systematic
Computation of Nonlinear Cellular and
Molecular
Dynamics
with
Low-Power
CytoMimetic Circuits: A Simulation Study."
PloS one 8, no. 2 (2013): e53591.
Papadopoulou, Virginie, Robert J. Eckersley,
Costantino Balestra, Thodoris D. Karapantsios,
and Meng-Xing Tang. "A critical review of
physiological bubble formation in hyperbaric
decompression." Advances in colloid and
interface science (2013).
Patel, B. A. "Mucosal adenosine triphosphate
mediates serotonin release from ileal but not
colonic
guinea
pig
enterochromaffin
cells." Neurogastroenterology & Motility (2013).
Patel, Bhavik Anil, Collin C. Luk, Pei Ling
Leow, Arthur J. Lee, Wali Zaidi, and Naweed I.
Syed. "A planar microelectrode array for
simultaneous detection of electrically evoked
dopamine release from distinct locations of a
single isolated neuron." Analyst 138, no. 10
(2013): 2833-2839.
Peiffer V, Bharath AA, Sherwin SJ, Weinberg
PD. A Novel Method for Quantifying Spatial
Correlations
Between
Patterns
of
Atherosclerosis and Hemodynamic Factors. J
Biomech Eng. 2013;135(2):021023-021023-11.
Peiffer, Veronique, Spencer J. Sherwin, and
Peter D. Weinberg. "Does low and oscillatory
wall shear stress correlate spatially with early
atherosclerosis?
A
systematic
review."
Cardiovascular research (2013).
Peiffer, Véronique, Spencer J. Sherwin, and
Peter D. Weinberg. "Computation in the rabbit
aorta of a new metric–the transverse wall
shear stress–to quantify the multidirectional
character of disturbed blood flow." Journal of
biomechanics 46, no. 15 (2013): 2651-2658.
Pennycott, Andrew, Heike Vallery, Dario Wyss,
Markus Spindler, Antoine Dewarrat, and
Robert Riener. "A novel body weight support
system extension: Initial concept and
simulation study." In Rehabilitation Robotics
(ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference
on, pp. 1-4. IEEE, 2013.
Pennycott, Andrew, Dario Wyss, Heike Vallery,
and Robert Riener. "A preliminary study into
the effects of pelvic rotations on upper body
lateral translation." In Rehabilitation Robotics
(ICORR), 2013 IEEE International Conference
on, pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2013.
Percivalle, Claudia, Tariq Mahmood, and
Sylvain Ladame. "Two-in-one: a pH-sensitive,
acridine-based, fluorescent probe binds Gquadruplexes
in
oncogene
promoters."
MedChemComm 4, no. 1 (2013): 211-215.
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Pereira, Andre F., and Sandra J. Shefelbine.
"The influence of load repetition in bone
mechanotransduction using poroelastic finiteelement models: the impact of permeability."
Biomechanics
and
modeling
in
mechanobiology (2013): 1-11.
Peruani, Fernando, and Chiu Fan Lee.
"Fluctuations and the role of collision duration
in
reaction-diffusion
systems."
EPL
(Europhysics Letters) 102, no. 5 (2013): 58001.
Pistohl, Tobias, Thomas Sebastian Benedikt
Schmidt, Tonio Ball, Andreas SchulzeBonhage, Ad Aertsen, and Carsten Mehring.
"Grasp Detection from Human ECoG during
Natural Reach-to-Grasp Movements." PloS
one 8, no. 1 (2013): e54658.
Pothoulakis, Georgios, Francesca
Benjamin Reeve, and Tom Ellis. "The
RNA Aptamer as a Characterization
Synthetic Biology." ACS synthetic
(2013).
Ceroni,
Spinach
Tool for
biology
Poulet, Blandine, Tim AT Westerhof, Richard
W. Hamilton, Sandra J. Shefelbine, and
Andrew
A.
Pitsillides.
"Spontaneous
osteoarthritis in Str/ort mice is unlikely due to
greater vulnerability to mechanical trauma."
Osteoarthritis and Cartilage (2013).
Prinold, Joe AI, Milad Masjedi, Garth R.
Johnson,
and
Anthony
MJ
Bull.
"Musculoskeletal shoulder models: A technical
review
and
proposals
for
research
foci." Proceedings of the Institution of
Mechanical Engineers, Part H: Journal of
Engineering in Medicine 227, no. 10 (2013):
1041-1057.
Prinold, Joe AI, Claire C. Villette, and Anthony
MJ Bull. "The influence of extreme speeds on
scapula kinematics and the importance of
controlling the plane of elevation." Clinical
Biomechanics (2013).
Ramasamy, Major Arul, Captain Adam M. Hill,
Spyridon Masouros, Lieutenant-Colonel Iain
Gibb, Lieutenant-Colonel Rhodri Phillip,
Anthony MJ Bull, and Colonel Jon C. Clasper.
"Outcomes of IED Foot and Ankle Blast
Injuries." The Journal of Bone & Joint
Surgery 95, no. 5 (2013): e25-1.
Reinhardt, Jan D., Andrew Pennycott, and
Bernd AG Fellinghauer. "Impact of a film
portrayal of a police officer with spinal cord
injury on attitudes towards disability: a media
effects
experiment." Disability
&
Rehabilitation 0 (2013): 1-6.
Rogers, Michelle L., and Martyn G. Boutelle.
"Real-Time
Clinical
Monitoring
of
Biomolecules." Annual Review of Analytical
Chemistry 6, no. 1 (2013).
Rogers, M. L., P. A. Brennan, C. L. Leong, S.
A. N. Gowers, T. Aldridge, T. K. Mellor, and M.
G.
Boutelle.
"Online
rapid
sampling
microdialysis (rsMD) using enzyme-based
electroanalysis for dynamic detection of
ischaemia during free flap reconstructive
surgery." Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry
(2013): 1-8.
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Rogers, Michelle L., Delphine Feuerstein, Chi
Leng Leong, Masatoshi Takagaki, Xize Niu,
Rudolf Graf, and Martyn G. Boutelle.
"Continuous Online Microdialysis Using
Microfluidic Sensors: Dynamic Neurometabolic
Changes during Spreading Depolarization."
ACS chemical neuroscience 4, no. 5 (2013):
799-807.
Southgate, Dominic FL, Desmond J. Bokor,
Umile Giuseppe Longo, Andrew L. Wallace,
and Anthony MJ Bull. "The Effect of Humeral
Avulsion of the Glenohumeral Ligaments and
Humeral Repair Site on Joint Laxity: A
Biomechanical Study." Arthroscopy: The
Journal of Arthroscopic & Related Surgery
(2013).
Oñativia, Jon, Simon R. Schultz, and Pier Luigi
Dragotti. "A finite rate of innovation algorithm
for fast and accurate spike detection from twophoton calcium imaging." Journal of neural
engineering 10, no. 4 (2013): 046017.
Stoddard, J. E., D. J. Deehan, A. M. J. Bull, A.
W. McCaskie, and A. A. Amis. "No difference in
patellar tracking between symmetrical and
asymmetrical femoral component designs in
TKA." Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology,
Arthroscopy (2013): 1-9.
Sen S, Asrress KN, Nijjer S, Petraco R, Malik
IS, Foale RA, Mikhail GW, Foin N, Broyd C,
Hadjiloizou N, Sethi A, Al-Bustami M, Hackett
D, Khan MA, Khawaja MZ, Baker CS, Bellamy
M, Parker KH, Hughes AD, Francis DP, Mayet
J, Di Mario C, Escaned J, Redwood S, Davies
JE,
"Diagnostic
Classification
of
the
Instantaneous Wave-Free Ratio Is Equivalent
to Fractional Flow Reserve and Is Not
Improved With Adenosine Administration
Results of CLARIFY (Classification Accuracy of
Pressure-Only Ratios Against Indices Using
Flow Study)." Journal of the American College
of Cardiology 61, no. 13 (2013): 1409-1420.
Sengupta, Biswa, A. Aldo Faisal, Simon B.
Laughlin, and Jeremy E. Niven. "The effect of
cell size and channel density on neuronal
information encoding and energy efficiency."
Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow & Metabolism
(2013).
Sera, Toshihiro, Hideo Yokota, Gaku Tanaka,
Kentaro Uesugi, Naoto Yagi, and Robert C.
Schroter. "Murine pulmonary acinar mechanics
during quasi-static inflation using synchrotron
refraction-enhanced CT.” Journal of Applied
Physiology (2013).
Setchi, A., A. J. Mestel, K. H. Parker, and J. H.
Siggers. "Low-Reynolds-number flow through
two-dimensional shunts." Journal of Fluid
Mechanics 723 (2013): 21-39.
Siggers,
Jennifer
H.,
Kritsada
Leungchavaphongse, Chong Hang Ho, and
Rodolfo Repetto. "Mathematical model of blood
and interstitial flow and lymph production in the
liver." Biomechanics and modeling in
mechanobiology (2013).
Singleton, J. A., Iain E. Gibb, A. M. Bull, Pete
F. Mahoney, and Jon C. Clasper. "Primary
blast lung injury prevalence and fatal injuries
from explosions: Insights from postmortem
computed tomographic analysis of 121
improvised explosive device fatalities." The
journal of trauma and acute care surgery 75,
no. 2 Suppl 2 (2013): S269-74.
Suyabodha, Apiwat, Andrew Pennycott, and
Chris J. Brace. "A preliminary approach to
simulating cyclic variability in a port fuel
injection spark ignition engine." Proceedings of
the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D:
Journal of Automobile Engineering 227, no. 5
(2013): 665-674.
Tanaka, Reiko J., and Masahiro Ono. "Skin
Disease Modeling from a Mathematical
Perspective." Journal
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Theunissen S, Guerrero F, Sponsiello N,
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(2012): 135-144.
Tunna, Isabel J., and Bhavik Anil Patel.
"Analysis of 5-hydroxytryptophan in the
presence of excipients from dietary capsules:
comparison between cyclic voltammetry and
UV visible spectroscopy." Anal. Methods 5, no.
10 (2013): 2523-2528.
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amplitude high frequency whole body
vibrations on the osteogenesis imperfecta
mouse bone." Bone (2013).
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Christensen-Jeffries, M. X. Tang, and C.
Dunsby. "Acoustic super-resolution with
ultrasound and microbubbles." Physics in
medicine and biology 58, no. 18 (2013): 6447.
Vincent, P. E., and P. D. Weinberg. "Flowdependent concentration polarization and the
endothelial glycocalyx layer: multi-scale
aspects of arterial mass transport and their
implications for atherosclerosis." Biomechanics
and modeling in mechanobiology (2013): 1-14.
Singleton, James AG, Iain E. Gibb, Nicholas
CA Hunt, Anthony MJ Bull, and Jonathan C.
Clasper.
"Identifying
future
‘unexpected’survivors: a retrospective cohort
study of fatal injury patterns in victims of
improvised explosive devices."BMJ open 3, no.
8 (2013).
Wang, C., M. J. Houghton, P. P. K. M.
Gamage, H. E. Collins, B. A. Patel, M. S.
Yeoman, R. N. Ranson, and M. J. Saffrey.
"Changes in the innervation of the mouse
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(2013).
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Characterization of Component Libraries for
Synthetic Biology." In Synthetic Biology, pp.
51-60. Humana Press, 2013.
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regulated stochastic cell fate determination."
Proceedings of the National Academy of
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Marx N, Naruszewicz M, Newby A,
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Weber C, Tokgözoglu L, ESC Working Group
of Atherosclerosis and Vascular Biology,
"Stabilization of atherosclerotic plaques: an
update." European heart journal 34, no. 42
(2013): 3251-3258.
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Barahona, and J. Goncalves. "Decentralised
minimum-time consensus." Automatica (2013).
Yue, Xicai, H. G. Krapp, and Emmanuel M.
Drakakis. "An output code offset-free
comparator for SAR ADCs based on non-linear
preamplifier
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CMOS
inverters."
Microelectronics Journal (2013).
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Lawan MI, Kawuwa MB, Oyedokun A,
Mohammed H, Amadi HO, Effective nursery
building that resolves tropical Evening Fever
Syndrome (EFS) in neonates
AROUND TOWN
Amin HD, Brady MA, St-Pierre J-P, Stevens
MM, Overby DR, Ethier CR, Stimulation of
chondrogenic differentiation of adult human
precursor cells using static magnetic field as a
physical cue
Boutelle MG, Rogers ML, Leong CL,
Feuerstein D, Graff R, The dynamics of
glucose and lactate metabolism in the injured
brain during spreading depolarisation
Corbett R, Demicheli N, Iori F, Grechy L,
Khiroya R, Ellis D, Crane J, Hamady M,
Gedroyc W, Duncan N, Vincent P, Caro C,
Novel approach to reduce the burden of
neointimal hyperplasia in arteriovenous fistulae
Amadi HO, Neonatal concerns in tropical
subSaharan Africa
Young Lecturer’s get into the
Christmas spirit
Young Lecturers meet for lunch every month and the
December meet up had a festive theme. Thanks to
Niamh for supplying the photo.
Zhou, Bin, Katharine H. Fraser, Christian
Poelma, Jean-Martial Mari, Robert J.
Eckersley, Peter D. Weinberg, and Meng-Xing
Tang. "Ultrasound Imaging Velocimetry: Effect
of Beam Sweeping on Velocity Estimation."
Ultrasound in Medicine & Biology (2013).
Sootla, Aivar, Natalja Strelkowa, Damien Ernst,
Mauricio Barahona, and Guy-Bart Stan.
"Toggling
a
Genetic
Switch
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Moore J, Maitland DJ, Biomedical Technology
and
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Kuntz J., Oyarzún D. A., Stan G.-B., Model
reduction of genetic-metabolic systems using
time scale separation, System Theoretic
Approaches to Systems and Synthetic Biology,
Springer-Verlag, 2013.
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Vignoni, A., D. A. Oyarzún, J. Picó, and G. B.
Stan. "Control of protein concentrations in
heterogeneous cell populations."
Lugagne, Jean-Baptiste, Diego A. Oyarzún,
and Guy-Bart V. Stan. "Stochastic simulation of
enzymatic reactions under transcriptional
feedback regulation."
Fisher, Jonathan AN, Fumiaki Nin, Tobias
Reichenbach, Revathy C. Uthaiah, and A. J.
Hudspeth. "The spatial pattern of cochlear
amplification." Neuron 76, no. 5 (2012): 989997.
Amadi HO, Azubuike JC, Osibogun AO,
Expansion of the incubator capacity of Special
Care Baby Units in Nigeria: a contribution to
MDG4 target
SET for BRITAIN will be held in the House of Commons on Monday, 17th March 2014
between 12.15pm and 9.15pm during National Science and Engineering Week 2014.
The day will be divided into four subject categories over three sessions. Applications
are invited from early-career research scientists, engineers, mathematicians and
technologists who wish to exhibit posters in one of the following areas:
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
Engineering
Mathematics
Biological and Biomedical Science
Physical Sciences (Chemistry and Physics)
Medals and cash prizes will be awarded for the best scientific posters presented in
each discipline, and the presenter of the poster judged to be the overall winner will
receive the Westminster Medal, in memory of the late Dr Eric Wharton, who did so
much to establish SET for BRITAIN as a regular event in the Parliamentary calendar.
Full details of the competition and exhibition including the application form can be
found on the SET for BRITAIN website at: http://www.setforbritain.org.uk.
Applicants should prepare material aimed at communicating high level science to a lay
audience.
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Dr Margarita Kotti, Research Associate,
Department of Surgery and Cancer
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Dr Tobias Reichenbach,
Department of Bioengineering
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Title: Neurobiology of hearing
30 Jan 2014 13.00-14.00 RSM 2.28
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Amanda Wilson,
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Department of Bioengineering
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Training and Development opportunities
Are you interested in using your
scientific/ engineering knowledge to
make science and engineering more
accessible to others? There are many
ways you can do this from bespoke
talks or demos directly linked to your
research to collaborations with artists
or talking to journalists or politicians
about your work.
E-mentors needed
Here are a few opportunities, suitable
for all levels from undergraduates to
professors. If these opportunities are
not for you then do talk to Jenna
about what you are interested in
doing.
Why: Your role is give them advice, tell
them what it’s like to study at university,
what you can do with a degree at the end
of the course and how much you enjoy
your course.
Science meets Art
Who: PhDs, Postdocs, Lecturers
What: Understanding Science through Art
is a project funded by the Mayor of
London. The exhibition, once developed
will open at the Pump House Gallery and
then tour London galleries.
Why: The exhibition will look at
traditionally
‘tricky’
areas
of
the
curriculum; Light, Forces and Magnets,
Electricity and Sound. It will be targeted
at years 3 and 4 (7-9 year olds.)
How: The process of this project will be:
 May 2014-September 20-14: 3
artists, 3 scientists and 3 teachers
will work together over 6 twilight
sessions to discuss the curriculum
area, and their interests, challenges,
opportunities- view points about it.
 Jan 2015 – April 2015: Artists to
develop work for exhibition, linking to
the curriculum consultant who will
develop resources. There will be
links with the teachers and schools.
 May –July 2015: Exhibition opens in
Pump House Gallery
 Sept onwards: Exhibition tours
London schools.
Interested?
Contact Emma Robertson, from the
Reach Out Lab.
Who: Enthusiastic students
What: E-mentoring scheme that has been
running at Imperial since 2003. You will
be paired to a Year 12 pupil who is
considering a career in a STEM subject
but lacks the support and knowledge to
carry out their dream.
How: Through the Imperial College
London bespoke Imperial Mentoring
platform.
Attracting
250
mentee
applications from Year 12 pupils around
the country since January there are still
more applications from new Year 12
students for this academic year and so
we are looking for current students to
mentor them.
How much time will it take:
Time commitment is minimal - you just log
onto the Imperial Mentoring website and
check your messages or post a reply. You
can write a little journal about what you've
been up to and keep your mentee
updated about how you are getting on
with your course, what's new in your
research area and what stories hit the
headlines as you learn it. Mentees in the
past have all said how important and
helpful their mentors have been to them,
so by just contributing an hour or less of
your time a week, you can make a huge
difference to a school pupil's future. The
website has a huge resources and
knowledge section too so you can guide
your mentee to the right areas to help
them and you can even set them little
tasks!
Interested?
Please download and complete an
Mentor Application form and then email it to Paul Lockwood the E-mentoring
coordinator within the Outreach office.
There is no real deadline for applications;
we can take on mentors and mentees
throughout the year. But we do currently
have quite a few mentees in need of a
mentor right now, so please apply as
soon as you can and we will match you
as and when a suitable mentee applies.
Media skills workshop
Who: All researchers
What: The Society of Biology runs a
regular training programme, which
includes a range of training opportunities.
The next course coming up in January is
on media skills and will be hosted by Sue
Nelson. Sue Nelson is a freelance
journalist who has reported on science for
BBC Radio4 and many other print, TV
and radio channels for a number of years.
Why: The course is designed to provide
scientists with an insight into print, radio
and television science journalism from a
number of experienced professionals in
the field. The aim is to give people an
appreciation and understanding of each
different media, as well as what makes a
good interview and why it makes sense to
speak to a journalist and communicate
with the media.
Interested?
For more information about this event
please go to the Society of Biology
website.
Attendees can obtain CPD points simply
by attending this event.
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New Centre for Doctoral Training in Neurotechnology
EPSRC has announced the award of
a Centre for Doctoral Training (CDT)
in “Neurotechnology for Life and
Health” at Imperial College London.
Neurotechnology is the use of insights
and tools from mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biology and engineering to
investigate neural function and treat
dysfunction. Brain-related illnesses affect
more than two billion people worldwide,
and the numbers are growing. Reducing
this burden is a major challenge for
society. The Centre will train a new
generation
of
multidisciplinary
researchers
at
the interface
of
neuroscience and engineering, to address
this challenge.
The Centre spans the Faculties of
Engineering,
Natural
Sciences
and Medicine
at
Imperial,
with
investigators from the Departments
of Bioengineering,
Mechanical
Engineering,
Electrical
and
Electronic Engineering,
Computing,
Chemistry, Physics, Life Sciences, and
the Division of Brain Sciences. Directed
by Dr Simon Schultz, Prof Bill Wisden and
Prof Paul Matthews, it intends to admit 14
students per year.
The research training programme is
unique. Students accepted onto the
programme will begin by taking an MRes
in Neurotechnology. During the MRes
year, students will take 3 months of
courses, including
Introduction
to
Neuroscience
(a
Masters
level
course specially developed to provide
physical scientists and engineers with a
thorough grounding in neuroscience) and
Neurotechnology Entrepreneurship. The
MRes year will also involve a single 9
month research project, in which students
will
spend
time
in
a
number
of laboratories learning the technical skills
needed for the specific PhD project.
Years 2-4 will then comprise a three-year
PhD, augmented by fun training activities.
All research projects will involve a team
of supervisors, each of whom will bring
complementary expertise to the project. In
addition to researchers from across
Imperial College, the Centre involves
twenty industry and charity partners, as
well as satellite research groups at the
Crick Institute and the University
of Oxford.
Further information can be obtained
from Dr Simon Schultz. A call for project
proposals from research supervision
teams is currently open, and we expect to
open PhD Applications in January 2014.